It's generally the reason. Standard legal process is a roadmap for ripping off the client with endless fees, delays and runarounds for repetitive rote paper. When lawyers go above and beyond to directly rob their clients, it seems a bit unseemly, and SOME get disbarred. When you read the California lists of disbarred lawyers, it's almost always for directly tapping the client till in some way with no proof of actually providing 'client services'. How many do this and get away with it without a complaint to the bar is an interesting question, since filing a complaint with the bar is another round robin of tedious, roadblocking procedure, so only the most egregious are pursued.

Avenatti allegedly committed wire fraud by lying to five clients about their settlements from cases he represented them in.

The total sum of the money he allegedly misappropriated is $12million.

He is accused of not only hiding their payments from them but spending the money himself on private planes, repaying the IRS and funding his own businesses between 2015 and 2017.

19 counts of tax fraud

Avenatti has not filed personal income tax returns since 2010, it is claimed.

Between 2015 and 2017, his coffee company Global Baristas US, did not pay $3.2million in federal payroll taxes.

More than $2million of that figure was withheld from staff pay checks and spent by Avenatti himself, it is alleged.

2 counts of bank fraud

The two bank fraud charges relate to the original indictment and claims he submitted bogus financial information to obtain three loans totaling $4.1 million from The People's Bank in Mississippi.

The bogus information included a tax return that had never been sent to the IRS and him overstating his law firm's resources when it was on the brink of bankruptcy.

One said his firm, Eagan Avenatti, had more than $500,000 in an operating account when it only had $43,000, it is claimed.

4 counts bankruptcy fraud

Three of the bankruptcy fraud charges allege that Avenatti submitted, under penalty of perjury, monthly operating reports that failed to report all of the firm's accounts receivable in 2017.

Avenatti is charged with falsely testifying under oath during a June 2017 bankruptcy hearing by denying the firm had received any fees related to a lawsuit when Eagan Avenatti had actually received more than $1.3 million

New York case 1

Conspiracy to commit extortion

Avenatti allegedly attempted to extort Nike by saying he had information which incriminated it in a pay-for-play college basketball scandal this year.

He allegedly told the company that he would conduct an internal investigation for a $25million fee instead of exposing it.

Nike reported him.

New York case 2

Charged with misappropriating funds belonging to the ex adult film star Stormy Daniels to the tune of nearly $300,000.

Tee Hee! Avenatti, the EveryReady Bunny Sociopath, he never stops. This is true of some sociopaths who are a bit frontal lobe impaired. They lie to so many people and generate so many incidents, they create a Gordian knot of cascading WTF's that can be impossible to untangle in any meaningful way. I guess he's in the right profession.

He’s going to prison now. He tried to send Trump there, and is going to wind up doing quite a bit of hard time. Maybe the next Dem POTUS will pardon him for “services rendered?” Might be a while on that tho. Trump’s got another five and a half years, and then we might get lucky again. Leftists are on the wane lately, and another Trump Republican might be just the ticket.